{"id":5,"date":"2002-11-09T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2002-11-10T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2002-11-09T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2002-11-10T00:33:52","slug":"a-few-simple-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2002\/11\/a-few-simple-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"A few simple questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where were the Florence protestors when Iraq invaded Kuwait?  Where was their moral outrage when the Serbs overran Srebenicia? Where were their howls of<br \/>\nindignation at the slaughter in Rwanda?<\/p>\n<p>As for their original reason for being in Firenze, might I suggest a book for reading between the hackey-sack playing and the pot-smoking (forgive me for<br \/>\nstereotyping, but this is what I saw of the anit-WEF folks who were camped out in the Heldnplatz in Vienna in July 2001 before they went to Salzburg): take a<br \/>\nlook at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/textbooks\/booksearch\/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0130870528\">The Choice<\/A> by <A \nHREF=\"http:\/\/csab.wustl.edu\/russellroberts.html\">Professor Russell Roberts<\/A> of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wustl.edu\/\">Washington University in St. Louis<\/A>.  It&#8217;s<br \/>\nkind of a cross between international trade theory and &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221;.  I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where were the Florence protestors when Iraq invaded Kuwait? Where was their moral outrage when the Serbs overran Srebenicia? Where were their howls of indignation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}